Proverbs in Wole Soyinka's Construction of Paradox in The Lion and The Jewel and Death and The King's Horseman
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20156799 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Morufu Bukola Omigbule (0009-0000-8777-4401, Obafemi Awolowo University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 96-112 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0256-4718 • E-ISSN: 1753-5387 |
| Publisher | Unisa Press (PUBLISHER • ZA) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02564718.2013.774183 |
| OpenAlex | W2024764179 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
Paradox, which is one means through which conflict is resolved in Soyinka's works, also accounts for the difficulty in interpreting his works. Proverbs play a significant role as a creative tool in the playwright's construction of paradox for the representation of the reality of his society and envisioning a better one. The article focuses on how proverbs have been strategically infused into the plays to lend a paradoxical edge to characterisation and the ironic resolution of conflict in the plays. A critical study of the proverbial idioms employed in the plays (these idioms are critically related to some salient Yoruba proverbs outside the texts) show that the charge of obscurity that is often levelled against Soyinka is attributable to his deployment of the tool of paradox to achieve aesthetic and philosophical significance. The study is informed by an agential approach to literary criticism which makes possible the establishment of connections between authorial intention and the agency of the text
Aesthetics · Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Salient · Sociology · Yoruba · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |